In the movies “Citizen Jane” and “Finding Brooklyn”  their was a lot of talk of the architect/real estate developer Robert Moses and how his planes were ruining communities and neighborhoods with his planes of gentrification of neighborhoods. Mr  Moses did not consider  the people he was displacing. He did not care about the minorities and the underprivileged that were being affected by his plans.Jane Jacobs was a Journalist/Civic Activist for these people. She saw how gentrification was ruining neighborhoods and she knew that the developers were only concerned with making money not making communities/ neighborhoods better. Mr Moses philosophy was if we wanted to make things better we had to cut out the cancers of these places, so his plan was to start over, tear it down and rebuild. He was an originator of the idea to create housing projects. The projects isolated the poor from the rest of society which Ms Jacob was total against that idea. Jacobs believed that diversity builds cities. She believed that networking between classes and races is what builds communities.While Moses had an agenda to eliminate the lower class. Jacobs understood that people and activity build a city/neighborhood.Jane Jacobs was a great strategist when it came to civic action, Washington Square Roadway was Mr Moses first defeat by Ms Jacobs. Mr Moses headed the Urban Development project in New York among other places. His plans were to was to sterilize the city and create a different kind of ghetto. Urban development meant Negro removal to developers like Moses. Those project were developed all across the United States and abroad. They were all failures and are being demolished now all across the United States. All to make developers and politicians rich. Neighborhoods in my city are being affected by gentrification now and the same issues Ms Jacobs was facing back then my neighborhood is facing now because of the projects going up in dumbo and Williamsburg. High rise condominium and lofts are surrounding my neighborhood which is causing basic household items in my neighborhood stores to even go up making it hard to afford even groceries.